Ansel Herz
Democracy Now! Tuesday, September 6, 2011
The commander of the Uruguayan Navy's United Nations mission in Haiti has been dismissed after the circulation of a video that allegedly shows Uruguayan peace keepers sexually assaulting an 18-year-old Haitian man. We go to Port Salut to speak with journalist Ansel Herz who broke the story. A new report by the Center for American Progress called, "Fear Inc: The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America," shows how a small group of self-proclaimed experts backed by a host of donors are spreading fear and hostility toward Muslims in the United States. We speak with one of the report's authors, Faiz Shakir, Vice President of the Center for American Progress and Editor-in-Chief of ThinkProgress.org. Hundreds of people marched the streets of New York City Sunday to honor the memory of Fr. Mychal Judge, the first recorded victim of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center. We speak with Brendan Fay, longtime gay rights activist and independent filmmaker who produced "Saint of 9/11," and play excerpts from the documentary as well as his upcoming film, "Remembering Mychal." Democracy Now!, a daily independent newshour.
Email this pageDemocracy Now! Thurs, Nov. 18, 2010
Protests are continuing in Haiti over the cholera outbreak that has now killed more than 1,100 people and infected some 17,000. We go to Cap-Haïtien to speak with independent journalist Ansel Herz. A battle is brewing in New York over the Secure Communities Program, a controversial federal immigration enforcement policy that requires local police to forward fingerprints of every person they arrest to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. We speak to Aarti Shahani, author of a new study that challenges this policy. She found that for immigrant prisoners arrested on drug charges and detained at Riker’s Island prison in New York City, suspects charged with lower-level crimes were selected for deportation more often than those charged with serious felonies. Tam Phan came to the United States from Vietnam when he was six years old. He later became involved with a gang and spent 17 years in prison. He turned his life around and is now pursuing a masters degree in urban policy and administration at Brooklyn College and is working at the Fortune Society, a nonprofit organization that helps ex-convicts re-enter society. But Tam Phan has been given a final deportation order and his only recourse is a pardon from New York Gov. David Paterson. The singer-songwriter, poet, artist and punk rock legend Patti Smith has won the National Book Award in the non-fiction category for memoir, Just Kids. We interviewed Patti Smith earlier this year. Democracy Now!, a daily independent newshour.
Democracy Now!: Thur, Jan. 14, 2010: Haitian Update
The death toll rises as Haiti is crushed by a massive 7.0-magnitude earthquake. Much of the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince has been leveled by Tuesday’s earthquake, leaving as many as 100,000 people dead and tens of thousands of people homeless. As of Thursday morning, little aid has arrived in Haiti. We go to Port-au-Prince to speak with independent journalist Ansel Herz. Bill Quigley, the legal director at the Center for Constitutional Rights, and Brian Concannon, director of the Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti, offer updates. Naomi Klein speaks about the situation, and Congressmember Maxine Waters talks about the U.S. and international aid response to Tuesday’s earthquake in Haiti. "Democracy Now!" is a daily independent newshour.
